From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 11:43:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hal-pc.org (hal-pc.org [204.52.135.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E1414A1B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 11:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cravey@hal-pc.org) Received: from [206.180.128.41] (206.180.128.41.dial-ip.hal-pc.org [206.180.128.41]) by mail.hal-pc.org (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAB02158 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:43:06 -0559 (CST) X-Sender: cravey@mail.hal-pc.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:43:04 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Stephen P. Cravey" Subject: Upgrading ports and existing programs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to upgrade the versions of some of my installed programs from ports. I can cvsup new ports, but before I do, I have a few questions. Are there several ports trees I can cvsup (ports-stable, ports-current, ports-really-really-buggy)? Do I need to 'make deinstall' all of the programs i've previeously installed from the ports collection before I cvsup the new ports? After I cvsup the new ports? at all? when? Do I need to worry about a new version of a port not working on my 3.1-stable system? Will cron-ing a ports cvsup cause any problems for installed programs? upgrading or removing them? basically, how the heck do I do this without messing up my system? Thank you. -Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message